Press release

We reacted well after yesterday's loss: Germany coach

Germany's Regina Burchardt was elected the Most Impressive Player

Germany coach Giovanni Guidetti: I’m very happy about today’s match because the team had a great reaction after losing yesterday. The first set was not so easy for us. Argentina played good and have made good improvements in the last year. My team was very focused and I’m really happy. Now, after eight matches we lost only two, so we are doing very, very well and I’m very excited to go to Tokyo with the possibility of qualifying [for the Olympics], so this is already kind of a dream for us. We came to the World Cup to play good and we go to Tokyo with the possibility to qualify, which we know is very difficult, but we believe in us and I think these [next] two days will help us regenerate a little bit because the players are starting to get tired.

Germany captain Margareta Kozuch: Today, we’re happy to win this match 3-0. I think we had problems with our attack at the start, but our substitutes did really well and did a really good job in the second and third sets. The team was reacting really good from the beginning, starting powerfully and keeping it to the end. Because of this we won 3-0. After a match like yesterday’s it’s always difficult. Now we’re going to Tokyo and hope to win as many matches as possible.

Argentina coach Horacio Bastit: Congratulations to my colleague for the win. We played well in the first set with good intensity, but Germany then made some key substitutions and took control. After that, they put pressure on us with their serves and in the third set their attack and counter-attack were too much for us.

Argentina captain Emilce Sosa: It was a difficult match. We started playing well but then things got complicated after the first set and that was the reason we lost.

Argentina No. 3 Paula Yamila Nizetech: We started to play well in the first set but then they put pressure on us with their service, and their attack was superior. But we’ll continue to work and improve.